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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
^Yup.
The bottom line is, ethanol STILL isn't commonly available everywhere and even where it is, it hasn't been widely adopted. That being the case, would you sell engines optimized for ethanol and compromised for E10?
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Of course not. CAFE uber alles, and as long as CAFE uses real-world measurements on E10 and then applies a flat percentage to calculate E85 economy, manufacturers have no incentive whatsoever to try to make an engine work well with both. This would be the case even if E85 was 90% of the market.